Don, Always a good idea to have spares. When they die, they give little notice. (Maybe 1 or 2 shots at 1/2 battery indication) Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:52 AM, willdo-1 <don.willi...@pp.inet.fi> wrote: > Last summer I put four Energizer AA lithium cells into the *ist D. I used it > all summer, carried it to Munich in August where I took 832 pictures (RAW). > Why so few? Because it was raining all the time. I've been using the camera > on and off since then. Both with lenses (some autofcous) and on the > microscope. The battery indicator still reads full. I don't actually know > how many pictures I've taken, but I'm sure it's more than 1000. I used the > flash on several occasions as well. Now we're going to Helsinki for Xmas and > I'm charging up a few sets up NiMH just in case. It would seem the figures > in the Pentax manual are conservative? > > I'm going to buy a couple of packs of those Lithiums for an Xmas present to > me. > > D > > -- > Dr E D F Williams > http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ > Post Office, 41660 TOIVAKKA, Finland > Alternative eMail: don.donwilli...@gmail.com > Phone: +358400706616 > eFax: 01-734-448-0676 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
